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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798" Lines 1-50.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of confusion does the speaker find himself able to shrug off when he remembers the landscape?
(a) Confusion about the difference between philosophy and experience.
(b) Confusion about why the world is the way it is.
(c) Confusion about his relationships.
(d) Confusion about his own ambitions.

2. Who is the author of "Tintern Abbey"?
(a) John Keats.
(b) William Wordsworth.
(c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(d) Percy Bysshe Shelley.

3. Besides in his heart and mind, where does the speaker say he felt "sensations sweet" when he remembered the landscape (28)?
(a) In his blood.
(b) In his bones.
(c) In his throat.
(d) In his stomach.

4. Line 33's use of the phrase "As have no slight or trivial influence" is an example of which technique?
(a) Anthimeria.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Litotes.

5. The word "murmur" in line 4 is an example of which technique?
(a) Vernacular diction.
(b) Pejorative diction.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Oxymoron.

Short Answer Questions

1. What paradox does the speaker introduce at the end of the second verse paragraph?

2. What kind of image opens the poem?

3. Which of the following describes the term "pastoral farms" (line 16)?

4. What is the best definition of "sublime" in the context of line 38?

5. In line 26, how does the speaker characterize the rooms he has been in in the city?

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